Forum search restriction (>3 chars)?

[bryan]

You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 4 characters and must not contain more than 84 characters excluding wildcards.

Occasionally I like to go to a user's profile and then "search user's posts" and put in whatever keywords. Occasionally I get the error message (as above) if I am only searching for something like: job, sex, car, van, oil, gas, etc.

Any chance of removing the >3 char restriction?

[George the original one]

Use a leading or trailing space/wildcard.

[bryan]

I think the rule excludes wildcards (tried adding "." xor "*" to "car")? Leading/trailing space also seems to not count.

edit: if I add quotes as part of the query with a space, like:

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"car "

it seems to work. Thanks!

[Viktor K]

And thank you as well bryan. I've been searching the forum for "development" instead of "web development" for the last month..

[jacob]

The forum SQL databases get rather large when they also include three letter words like "the", "you", ...

I usually search the forums with google using site:forum.earlyretirementextreme.com as one of the search terms, e.g.

site:forum.earlyretirementextreme.com development -"web development"

[Viktor K]

Ah, of course. I just tried a: "web " development

search on here and it didn't work anyway, since it splits it up.

[C40]

You can also use google. Put the following in the search bar:

site:forum.earlyretirementextreme.com sex

[J_]

@C40: I followed your instruction, very good google tip.
Result: much much C40!!